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title: Leviticus 9:4 (JPS 1917) — and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LOR… · tree and pragmatics
description: and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal-offering mingled with oil; for to-day the LORD appeareth unto you.' Who acts: meal offering, LORD. Leviticus 9:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leviticus 9:4 · JPS 1917

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and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal-offering mingled with oil; for to-day the LORD appeareth unto you.'

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**Who acts:** meal offering, LORD · **What happens:** sacrifice, mingle, appear · **To what, where:** ox

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This is Leviticus 9:4 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal offering, LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:LEV:214
# text = and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal-offering mingled with oil; for to-day the LORD appeareth unto you.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	offerings	offering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	appeareth	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sacrifice** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the LORD |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mingle** | past | a meal offering | a ox and a ram for peace offerings *not said here* |  |  |  | with oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ox=Patient with oil=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | present | the LORD |  |  |  | day | unto you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְשׁ֨וֹר וָאַ֜יִל לִשְׁלָמִ֗ים לִזְבֹּ֙חַ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וּמִנְחָ֖ה בְּלוּלָ֣ה בַשָּׁ֑מֶן כִּ֣י הַיּ֔וֹם יְהוָ֖ה נִרְאָ֥ה אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃

[Leviticus 9:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:LEV:214` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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